Suzy Fleming Leonard: Dip in mercury exposes weather wimps

8:19 PM,
Jan. 11, 2014

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Smugness isn't an attractive quality. Smug people are annoying and hard to take.

That being said, it was hard not to feel just a little smug last week while the polar vortex held most of the nation in its icy grip.

While many of my friends in northern climates were clogging Facebook with talk of sub-zero wind chill factors, here's what former FLORIDA TODAY space reporter Kelly Young had to say: "I think the polar vortex just hit Sanibel. I may have to change from shorts to capris." ...